I am but a generation removed from poverty and despair. Where would I be today if there had never been an America?
MARCO RUBIOI am but a generation removed from poverty and despair. Where would I be today if there had never been an America?
MARCO RUBIOI’m not going to change who I am. I’m not going to change why I’m running… I’m running for president [in 2016], and I’m running because we can’t afford another four years like the last eight years.
MARCO RUBIOI don’t really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.
MARCO RUBIOI think we need to simplify our tax code, but not as a way of generating revenue, as a way of making our tax code more growth- friendly.
MARCO RUBIOMy father was a bartender. And the journey from the back of that bar to the [election 2016], to me, that is the essence of the American dream.
MARCO RUBIOAmericans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home.
MARCO RUBIOEvery nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free enterprise system creates prosperity, not denies it.
MARCO RUBIOWe live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.
MARCO RUBIOFor more than two generations, my family had never achieved their ambitions. Their talents were unappreciated and unused. They deserved better. They hadn’t done anything wrong; they just had some bad breaks.
MARCO RUBIODonald Trump is a world-class con artist. He conned all these people that signed up for Trump University. Now he’s trying to do the same thing to Republican voters. He’s trying to convince them that somehow he’s the guy that is going to stand up to illegal immigration.
MARCO RUBIOWhat is the conservative movement? It’s pretty straightforward. We believe that the way prosperity is created is when people have the freedom and the opportunity to pursue their dreams.
MARCO RUBIOFirst, the federal government, one of the fundamental responsibilities that it has is to protect the nation’s health and wellbeing. And this [Zika virus] is a threat to public health in the United States. It is a very serious disease.
MARCO RUBIOThe idea that more taxes and more government spending is the best way to help hardworking middle class taxpayers – that’s an old idea that’s failed every time it’s been tried.
MARCO RUBIODonald Trump is never going to be the nominee. So, I’m not worried about a hypothetical that’s never going to happen.
MARCO RUBIOI’ll support Donald [Trump] if he’s the Republican nominee.
MARCO RUBIOThe truth is, the greatest tool to lift children and families from poverty is one that decreases the probability of child poverty by 82%. But it isn’t a government spending program. It’s called marriage.
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